Police sprayed with water in Cambridge, man charged with offences

A video on social media shows police officers being sprayed with water during an incident in Cambridge, Waikato.

The incident unfolded on August 19 after officers were called to a property after a report of a crash in Hillcrest where a driver had rear-ended another car, performed a sustained loss of traction and then left the scene.

In a video posted to social media, police are seen asking a man for his details regarding the crash.

The man responds: “No comment, no consent, no contract, you can bugger off you aren’t allowed here.”

A man in a blue shirt is then seen with a hose and starts spraying water towards one of the officers.

In the same video, the officers are accused of trespassing multiple times.

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A police spokesperson said: “When police arrived at the Cambridge property to speak to the man, he refused to engage and resisted arrest when officers attempted to take him into custody for sustained loss of traction and failing to ascertain injury.”

A separate video shows a man being arrested by police while being sprayed by the hose again.

The man behind the camera can be heard saying, “I’m watering my grass, you get off my property” and “what, you scared of a bit of water?”

Police said a 32-year-old man has “subsequently been charged with failing to stop or ascertain injury, operating a vehicle causing sustained loss of traction, refusing an officer’s request to give blood, resisting police, and driving while disqualified”.

The man had an initial appearance in the Hamilton District Court on August 25.